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Andrew Yee <yee@post.harvard.edu> wrote:

This has to do with using pipe() and grep and read.csv() I have a .csv file that I grep using pipe() and read.csv() as follows: read.csv(pipe('grep foo bar.csv')) However, is there a way to have this command run when for example, there is no "foo" text in the bar.csv file? I get an error message (appropriately): Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : no lines available in input Is there a way to "inspect" the output of pipe before passing it on to read.csv()? Thanks, Andrew_____________________________________________
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